I have loved my summer of football but it is great to be heading to Celtic Park on Champions League qualification duty tonight. Better still, that we took care of the tie in Armenia, so that familiar knot in the stomach we often get at this time of year will not manifest tonight.
Alashkert will want to get this game over with but for Celtic it is another step in our fitness preparation for the three greater qualification challenges that lie ahead.
During the first half, we will have an eye on how Valur are getting on against Rosenborg in Trondheim. The winners face Celtic in the next round*. The Icelanders have a 1-0 lead to defend.
We are still preseason, and therefore likely to pick up injuries, so nothing heroic, Celtic.
*caveat acknowledged.
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LO
Top of the tree!
Podium on a work day- result. HH to all and I’d like to thank a long list of people for helping me achieve this, especially my employers.
Too late Minskbhoy- you snooze, you loose
Full team tonight- to get some practice in.
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/which-opponents-are-impressing/
Pressing leads to fastbreaks and fastbreaks lead to goals. How pressing can be measured using the Passes Per Defensive Action metric.
CELTICBYNUMBERS
Martin O’Neill’s Celtic pressed. Never seen a team like it for getting the ball back off an opponent and punishing them
Top Ten from Gozo?!?!?!
Injury free and into the next round Bhoys, that’s all I’ll be looking for tonight.
Very positive start to the the season. Keep the momentum going tonight. Really looking forward to this season.
WK67
Celtic at Paradise in Europe, one of my favourite things:))
1 and 11, on a school night!
Doc- keep an eye out for Billy Connolly, he lives there, enjoy
STARRY PLOUGH _
“my favourite things ”
Ok -consider it done –
https://youtu.be/emJ-RGuqFDg
No fan of Cliff Richard but what the BBC and the police put him through, was scandalous
Celtic 4-0 Alashkert
Fancy Rosenborg to get through tonight and it not to be as close as last time when we play them.
HH
Bring on the Danes, the Armenians and the Icelanders, bring on the Uzbecks by the score………
Have we ever played Valur in Europe HH
55 is an inevitability…
… six years and we’re there.
?⚽️
FRANNYB67
Yes -mid 70s -Cup Winners Cup.
Beat them over there and humped them at Celtic Park. . The fine details escape me !!!!
FRANNY
Yes, we have. Late 70s I think, if my memory serves me well.
I think Johaness Edvaldsonn’s brother, Atli, was a young player with them at the time.
Any techies on know anything about Apple computers? Last few times I have been lurking on CQN, a warning has opened up saying my computer is infected by a virus. As far as I thought, this didn’t happen to Apple Mac computers so I think it is probably a scam. Anyone able to confirm?
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING –
Not a techie ——————- but -unlikely to be a virus and more likely a scam aimed at getting you to download something called- MAC DEFENDER — Don’t !!!!
GG’sH
I’m no techie but as an Apple user of many years I’d say you’re right in thinking it’s a scam. I have had them in the past and, at first, they are threatening. If I remember rightly, to get rid of the message, I restarted and held the shift key down while that took place.
SOT, Pat McGrath
Thanks,
The cry was no Mac defender.
First name on the team sheet is….?
Are we home or away first game next round? H H Hebcelt
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KTF
Tonights match is included on your season ticket
CQN
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 18TH JULY 2018 1:39 PM
I exclusively use Apple and have done so for approaching 10 years. I have never had a virus on any device and don’t use any commercial software to protect them. Mac Defender is dreadful software and will wreck your OSX install; the only way to get rid is a full restore of the system.
A bit like a house Barratt joke in the 70s/80s once you’ve got it you ca never get rid of it!
KTF
and if we go through, we still dont know exactly what day we play on ?
it
Celtic 7 Valur 0. 1975. Dalglish walked into the New Orleans pub Rutherglen pre match with his in laws. I got his autograph and congratulated him on the birth of his daughter Kelly, who’s now a TV presenter. Makes me feel my age.
Hebcelt
Home first
As a result of match tickets now being limited, Celtic TV will provide exclusive LIVE coverage of tonight’s match for ALL Celtic TV subscribers.
How come BT televised the Sevco home leg last week but not ours this week.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
That’s the one:))
JC CSC
gene on 18th July 2018 2:35 pm
How come BT televised the Sevco home leg last week but not ours this week.
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Genuine chance of the hilarity of the huns getting papped oot :)
HH
Double treble winning Celtic manager calls for patience during transfer window
T88
Didn’t watch it – just wondered – maybe we don’t need the money